Writing Classes in Washington, DC

In this course, you will learn to enhance and augment your creative writing ability. This poetry class is one that will assist in your creative writing process and upon completion you will gain confidence in writing some of the best poetry you have written. Materials Needed to Fully Participate: Pencil/Pen Notebook An open mind About the...

This course focuses on professional written communication. Students learn to write clear, concise, and effective business letters, memos, reports, email, texts, and proposals. Additionally, students learn to target their message for stakeholders (superiors, colleagues, employees, and clients) using effective tone, language structure, and word choice....

Whether you’re interested in full-length plays, musicals, short plays, or other forms, all dramatic writing employs essential ideas and techniques to bring out the drama in any narrative.  Explore theatricality and the craft of dramatic writing, and walk away with a self-identified set of skills you can use to craft dynamic stories for the...

This course is for those professionals who have mastered the fundamentals of business writing and want to become versed in more complex forms of written communications in the workplace. The focus is on producing documents such as executive summaries, recommendations, formal reports, formal proposals and requests for proposal. The key elements of effective...

Author, writer, editor and writing coach, David Tabatsky guides students in the creative writing process using each student's personal voice, experience and communication abilities to drive storytelling.

In this course, students improve their grammar through targeted oral and written communication exercises. Activities and strategies are customized to meet specific professional and communication needs. Students build confidence as they develop their ability to refine their language structures and usage. Note: Classroom location listings are also posted...

Add some creativity to your week from the comfort of your own home This long-standing in-person generative, creative writing workshop, which took place in West Hollywood, CA, for 15 years, has switched to an online format so you can now join us from anywhere. Tap into your creative side, write work that will surprise you, and learn a few things along...

In this higher-level grammar course, students improve their English fluency and accuracy through engaging activities. Focusing on sophisticated forms such as, gerunds and infinitives, complex sentences types, reduced clauses, and appropriate word selection, students enhance their speaking and writing skills. Activities incorporate a combination of...

If you’re just stepping into the world of playwriting, welcome! In this 5-week class, Kara Lee Corthron will help you build a toolbox of the fundamentals, so your first play (and each play you write after that!) can be built on a strong foundation. This class might be for you if you are: A budding playwright who wants to get down to basics. A...

Are you eager to test the waters of creative writing but not sure where to start, or how? Have you written previously but been away for a while and hope to dip back in? Here you will be guided surely and safely into the writing life. There’s no pressure to work on a specific project or even settle on which type of creative writing you prefer. The...

Join writers from all over the world and your teacher, Pulitzer Prize nominated author, TV writer, screenwriter, professor, and former HBO executive, Stephen Molton, for this unique Television Drama Weekend Intensive Workshop. Get ready to dive deep into the structure of of the pilot and learn what makes a drama pilot sell. Collaborate live through...

Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger Will Forever Change The Way You View Screenwriting. Rather than imposing formulaic models from the outside, we teach you how to organically “grow” your script, from initial idea, to character, to scene, to act, to the movie you’ve always dreamed of writing. Jump Start Your Writing. Whether you’re...

A “learn by doing” class that takes you step-by-step through the TV pitching and writing process, moving you from idea to pages in four weeks. Three classes will be taught by Pilar Alessandra and will focus on creating and developing your series and pilot. One class will be taught by Carole Kirschner and will focus on selling, staffing...

In this course, students explore different elements of English structure through readings, digital media, dialogs, songs, games, and student writing. By the end of the course, students should have a solid grasp of basic verb tenses, prepositional phrases, articles, and sentence varieties. Pre-requisites:  Students need to be levels in 3 or 4...

On this 1-day Business Writing class participants learn step-by-step how to write more persuasive and effective emails, reports and business proposals and create a more favorable impression of themselves and their organization. They will also learn to sharpen language, tone, style, spelling and punctuation whilst avoiding common writing mistakes. This...